...Daniel Biegelson © 2020 Daniel Biegelson 2020 Daniel Biegelson The Sea as Far as We Know Once upon a time an egg and a chicken and a tadpole and a frog and a seed and a flower and a caterpillar and a chrysalis and a butterfly appeared as referents or walked or swam or sprang or crawled...

...Kevin King 55 Kevin King Obit: Mohammed Mossadeq (The History You Don't Know, Declassified) In '52 Mossadeq got word of his impending assassination by the CIA. Paranoid, he...

...Janée J. Baugher © 2012 by Virginia Tech 2012 Janée J. Baugher What Children Know Dandelions yellow under nails nail coffins shut. The yellow of senses are sensed from a distance where pigtails bob and the thickness of June is immortal. Yellow feet-pajamas...

... that to uncover the richness of the material world, including how it affects us and its implications for our lives, we need to know what it is made of; in other words, what actually makes up the objects and things that we need and use? Documentation science complements and supports Lehmann's call for material...

...Wang Ning The issue of modernity with regard to the function of translation has been one of the most cutting-edge theoretical topics in both Chinese and international contexts, especially in dealing with globalization and world literature. As we know, modernity functioned both politically...

...Horam Kim Horam Kim Turtlenecks and Tank Tops in the Heart of Kansas City Nobody knows how Mr. O’Brien fell off his roof and broke his leg. Nobody was there to see it happen. He blamed it all on account of an arrowhead stuck in the gutters. The way he told it, he was bend- ing over...

... of a polar bear. The bear becomes an owl. The owl becomes a ship. The ship becomes a dog, and the dog becomes a wolf. And so on. But a whale is always a whale. I am beginning to dream in colors I know I’ve never seen. And yet. I have no one to blame but the whale. It is true that none of us have...

... study the things they tell me to study), but you ve been the most interesting one of them all. I don t know if you know this, but Ms. Campbell drives a 2003 Honda Civic and lives in an apartment o Lincoln Avenue and works out at Curves on weekends and has never, as far as I can tell, dated anyone...

..., you know, limber-like. She plays with the strings between her boobs and arches her one foot on the dusty floor like she’s gonna leap over the counter. My friends would say, “How you doing?” And that would be that. But I says, “Can I help you?” like I’m a damn suit working...

...? You, she points to me, are so underweight, you skinny ass, what would you put into a bathing suit? Well, pipes up brother, haven’t you heard about the woman who surfs every day but doesn’t know how to swim. You lie, I say, how do you know? I just do, he says, and if she wipes out, she...

.... or, at night, i followed the stars to the bayou and met you in the water, we danced a juba underneath the cypress and mighty oak; say praise for the dark that holds us in disguise, praise the map we know, praise what keeps us here: these rattling bones swaying in exaltation. or, i met you in the water...

..., spits in our sinks. They will have painted the shutters. They will have replaced the door. When you are gone, who will drive the car. Who will turn the wheel, who will know where to turn. Who will draw the maps —​ straight lines fading into sharp curves: all things to scale, all things...

...Emily O'Neill © 2016 Emily O'Neill 2016 Emily O’Neill a story so touching it must be told with a whip how can you go home when your mother calls you James & everyone else knows you’re Candy do you ever get tired of changing clothes & beating your face in doorways can’t pay for anything...

... as We Know It: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child (Pantheon, 1996), which teases out the theoretical nettle of the nature/ nurture argument as well as recounts a memoir of parenting a child with Down syndrome. More recently he has staked out the blogosphere with Le Blog Bérubé, which...

...Jason Bredle © 2015 Jason Bredle 2015 Jason Bredle 52-Hertz Whale We began to speak exclusively in metaphors —​ a fight broke out at a tulip festival between a bear in a diaper and a guy in tight pants who could shoot lasers from his eyes, if you know what I...

... don t know. We gain a hat, we lose a hat. That s not a coincidence, right? That s some, like, serial killer shit. Let s hope not. Should we call the police? Are you kidding? Over a hat? * * * For whatever reason, it didn t bother me too much. I don t know, maybe it should have. But I had...

...Chelsey Grasso © 2020 Chelsey Grasso 2020 Chelsey Grasso Fortune-Telling When we walk through the sliding doors, my mother enters her king- dom. Always to the produce first, in an effort to start collecting the essentials: garlic, in cloves; lemons, by bagfuls. Did you know that walnuts...

...Christi Clancy © 2010 by Virginia Tech 2010 Christi Clancy Echo-Lala I’ve been seeing Ivan for a few months, long enough to find out he likes to pretend I’m a dancer. He sounded embarrassed when he told me, but it’s alright. I know the men I date wish I was someone other than who I...

... as female. “The cat is smarter than you,” she says when I tell her Lorna is missing. “She knew to get the fuck out of Kansas.” I crouch down and turn the knob on the radiator to “open,” but I know the heat isn’t working. Every day my landlord says he’s coming, and then he does not come...

...Tom Boswell © 2007 the minnesota review 2007 11 Tom Boswell Black is the color of my true love for Paul I wish to see the streets swell with these earnest Americans, knowing full well that the larger...